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Tuesday, February 17, 1987 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan News H (2 S il By The Associated Press D Mas! Mai TiDegiBS m J emsalem Court suspects former U.S. citizen 'Ivan the Terrible JERUSALEM Retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk went on trial Monday on charges he ran gas clumbers at a Nazi death camp where 850,000 Jews died. Holocaust survivors in the audience wept. One shouted that Demjanjuk had strangled his family. Demjanjuk, who says he is innocent, could face execution if convicted. He is only the second man to be tried in Israel on Nazi war crimes charges. During the session, he sat hunched over, his face expressionless, as he faced a capacity crowd of 400 journal ists and spectators in a movie theater that had been converted into a court room for the trial. 4 John Demjanjuk stands accused of responsibility for the most terrible and heinous crimes in history.' Blattman The indictment charges Demjanjuk was the notorious guard "Ivan the Ter rible" who beat and tortured victims before turning on the gas chamber engines at Treblinka, a death camp in German-occupied Poland, in 1942 and 1943. He is charged with "crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against persecuted persons." Demjanjuk pleaded innocent when his trial began Nov. 26. O'Connor has maintained his client is a victim of mistaken identity. O'Connor also said the case against his client should be dismissed because Damjanjuk was extradited from the United States on an order specifying he would be tried for murder, not war crimes. But Judge Dov Levine, chairman of the three-member panel hearing the case, rejected the argument, saying "the (U.S. extradition) document made it clear that by murder, it meant all the crimes mentioned by the extradition request." Demjanjuk, a former resident of the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills, was stripped of his U.S. citizenship before being extradited in February 1986. - The Cutter's: Edge :35th & Baldwin; 467-2778 ST02BIT CISCOOTS 2 Months for $50.00 TANNING SPECIAL! (Call and inquire about other specials) 38th & South In Brief I 488-2183 Jefe Manson: I wouldn't kill a bug NEW YORK Although it has been 18 years since the brutalTate LaBianca murders, Charles Manson, serving a life term in California's San Quentin prison, is anything but remorseful. ' "I've done nothing I'm ashamed of," Manson, 52, told Life magazine in an interview published in the March issue. "Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug." .. "But you'd kill a person?" Manson was asked. , "I'd probably kill all of them if I could'.". . Hey, time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy. . . . I'm nobody. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train." . In August 1969, his "family" of followers slaughtered actress Sharon Tate, supermarket owner Leno LaBianca and five others. , : .: Cronkite begins S. African visit - ' JOHANNESBURG!, South Africa Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite arrived in South Africa on Monday, but South African authorities refused to let CBS News film his visit. :. Cronkite, who is still active with CBS News, said he planned to meet prominent South Africans, including government and opposition leaders. He said the government issued him a restricted visa that apparently prevents CBS from .filming his interviews and travels. Food trucks enter South Lebanon refugee camps BEIRUT, Lebanon Shiite Moslems lifted a four-month blockade Monday and let food trucks enter two small Palesti nian refugee camps in south Lebanon, but there was no indi cation of an end to the camp siege in Beirut. The United Nations said the four trucks unloaded 47 tons of flour, 90,000 cans of sardines and 564 canisters of skim milk in al Bass and Bourj el-Shamali near the port of Tyre. Militiamen of the Shiite mil itia Amal also allowed thousands of Palestinian women and child ren from the much larger Rashi diyeh camp to travel two miles to Tyre to buy food. No men emerged from the camp, fearing capture by the Shiites. Amal allowed a U.N.. convoy carrying food to enter Beirut's Bourj el-Barajheh camp Saturday only after an equal amount of food was delivered to the sur rounding Shiite slums. . Shiite gunmen from Amal have blockaded the three camps 50 miles south of Beirut since Oct. 1 as part of a campaign to keep Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat from regain ing the Lebanese base he lost with the 1982 Israeli invasion. A police source in -Tyre said . Amal gunmen allowed the con voy to enter, the two smaller, camps only after they confiscated "one-third of the flour." In Beirut, officials of the Uni ted Nations Relief and Works Agency, which donated the food, would not comment on the police report. For Fall '87-Sprihg '88 DESCRIPTION: TERRITORY: ARMED: Suspects are male and female black, white, yellow and red fat and thin tall and short Suspects can be found in Residence Halls sororities fraternities co -ops on City Campus on East Campus The suspects are armed with love, patience, concern and a desire to help others . . . and should be considered extremely valuable! IF YOU FIT THIS DESCRIPTION, TURN YOURSELF IN BETWEEN 8:00 & 5:00 AT: Community Health Department University Health Center City Campus 472-7440 isDJ Army moves to overhaul system for identifying casualty remains WASHINGTON The Army has soberly set" out to modernize the process of handling the remains of fallen soldiers, convinced the military logistics of death have become outdated. - . . Among the concerns that now are being dis cussed are how the remains of soldiers killed as a result of nuclear, chemical or biological war should be recovered and handled; what new technologies are available for use in a war zone to assist in identification of remains, and what . can be done to automate the process of tracking remains through what is now a maze of paperwork. Those concerns, particularly that of a war v. v Correction The UNL College of Journalism split from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1978, not in 1975 as was printed in the Feb: 16 Daily Nebraskan. Because of another typographical error, the Dean of the Col lege's name, R. Neale Copple was miss pelled. The Daily Nebraskan regrets the errors. Daily, Editor Managing Editor Assoc. News Editors Editorial Page Editor Wire Editor Jefl Korbelik 472 1766 Gene Gentrup Tammy Kaup Linda Hartmann Use Olsen James Rogers Scott Thien The Daily Nebiaskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Fri day in the lall and spring semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472 1763 between 9 a m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board For intormation, contact Harrison Schultz 474-7660. Subscription price is S35 (or one year. Postmaster; Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln Neb. 68583-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lin coln. NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1387 DAILY NEBRASKAN fought in a "dirty environment" of nuclear or chemical contamination, already have led a study group to confront the need for new equip ment such as radiation detectors and a new type: of pouch to handle remains. ; The overhaul of procedures for the task of retrieving and transporting combat casualties has been entrusted to a unit, the Graves Reserva tion Work Group. It was formed after the Army's Quartermaster School completed a critical study last August, concluding that the military was still relying On methods dating to World War II. "This has not been a subject that's been popu lar and so it's been somewhat ignored," says Gary L. Wieting, a logistics specialist on the Army's Pentagon stall who heads the working group. '' : According to WietingJ his group has a rela tively simple charter use fresh approaches "to carry graves registration into the 21st cen tury; to quickly and reverently recover and evac uate remains. . .on the future battlefield." Although the study is classified, an unclassi fied executive summary has been released. It discloses recommendations to the working group to consider automating the Army's system for identifying and handling remains, including the purchase of mini-computers for graves reserva tion specialists. It also calls for research in such areas as the use of bar-code tags that can be scanned elec tronically to keep track of casualties as they are transported home. Also recommended were studies of the use of automated, digital x-ray equipment to produce records on remains in the war zone fcr later use in positive identification, and even the use of "micro dot tooth tags" tiny computer chips with identifying information that can be "cemented" with resin on a soldier's tooth.